Data intermediary

Service design of consumer data intermediary for competitive individual targeting

Individual targeting, a marketing strategy that firms target individual consumers with tailored offers, is currently a widespread practice. Customer data intermediaries (CDIs) have emerged recently to help firms learn their prospective customers and launch their target marketing campaigns. This paper uses a common-value auction framework to study how a CDI designs and differentiates its informa...

Applying MDA in Developing Intermediary Service for Data Retrieval

In this paper, service for data retrieval from existing library management system is described. This service intermediates between library management system which provides data and system which requires that data. The main idea is that this service should support various protocols for data retrieval. Also, this service should be flexible for future update and simple enough for integration into ...

Intermediary Influence

Ronald Coase and others writing in his wake typically assume that institutional arrangements evolve to minimize transaction costs. This Article draws attention to a powerful, market-based force that operates contrary to that core assumption: “intermediary influence.” The claim builds on three observations: (1) many transaction costs now take the form of fees paid to specialized intermediaries, ...

Intermediary metabolism.

Caenorhabditis elegans has orthologs for most of the key enzymes involved in eukaryotic intermediary metabolism, suggesting that the major metabolic pathways are probably present in this species. We discuss how metabolic patterns and activity change as the worm traverses development and ages, or responds to unfavorable external factors, such as temperature extremes or shortages in food or oxyge...

Intermediary Metabolism